#060 - Exaflop Sweat

Strange Realm

On tonight's show we bring you a wide-ranging and ground-covering hay fever dream of an episode as we look at how extraterrestrial life might likely be purple, how the new supersonic spy drone from China is stylishly designed like the American one that crashed there in the 70s, the supercomputers that will help us land men on Mars, and then we examine the news of a nanogenerator that turns CO2 into electricity has proven to work in recent laboratory tests. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.

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Notes:

-Purple life in outer space?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sorry-little-green-men-alien-life-might-actually-be-purple/
- Supercomputers will help us land on Mars
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/supporting-the-future-of-mars-exploration-with-supercomputers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing
- China's new supersonic spy drone has a retro look
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-s-latest-supersonic-spy-drone-looks-a-lot-like-the-lockheed-d-21-that-crashed-there-in-1971/
- Nanogenerator turns CO2 into electricity
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-proof-concept-nanogenerator-sustainable-power.html
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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